Zeno's Republic

There have been eight persons of the name of Zeno. * first the Eleatic; * the second our present subject; * the third a Rhodian who wrote a local history in one volume; * the fourth a historian who wrote an epitome of the political history of Rome and Carthage; * the fifth a pupil of Chrysippus, who left few writings but many disciples; * the sixth a physician of the school of Herophilus, a competent practitioner, though a poor writer; * the seventh a grammarian, who besides other writings has left behind him epigrams; * the eighth a Sidonian by birth and an Epicurean philosopher, lucid both in thinking and in style; The quantum Zeno effect (also known as the Turing paradox) is a fea...View all